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Rock star life leads to ministerial drive
Business Spectator
The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) has targets to halve the gap for indigenous students in reading, writing and numeracy achievement by 2018, and to halve the gap of Year 12 attainment rates by 2020. However, the most recent COAG Reform ...

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Film makers capture Indigenous stories
ABC Local
A team of film makers are travelling across Western Australia in a bid to capture and preserve 100 important Indigenous stories on film for 100 years and beyond. Print page; Email this · Permalink. Share. To view this media, please enabled Javascript ...

Mayor hopes for Indigenous visitors' hostel success
ABC Message Stick
The Mayor of Kalgoorlie-Boulder says it is up to the community to ensure the newly opened Kalgoorlie Indigenous Visitors' Hostel is a success. The $3.25 million facility will provide family-friendly accommodation for people visiting from remote ...

Cruel indigenous hunters to face penalties
Sydney Morning Herald
Queensland Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders using cruel hunting methods will no longer be immune from prosecution. The state government passed amendments to the Animal Care and Protection Act yesterday, bringing Queensland into line ...

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South Australian partnership has the right ingredients for improving health
National Indigenous Times
South Australia's first Aboriginal community cookbook will be just one of the outcomes of a Department of Health and Ageing grant focused on improving Aboriginal health. The grant, awarded to Tauondi College along with project partners the Aboriginal ...

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Sky News Australia
Indigenous recognition poll 'doubtful'
NEWS.com.au
Labor agreed to hold the referendum as part of a deal with the Australian Greens following the 2010 election to seal the minor party's support for the Gillard minority government. Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Nigel Scullion does not think it ...
Too late for Indigenous referendum, Opposition saysABC Online

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Indigenous recognition poll 'doubtful'
Herald Sun
Labor agreed to hold the referendum as part of a deal with the Australian Greens following the 2010 election to seal the minor party's support for the Gillard minority government. Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Nigel Scullion does not think it ...
Too late for Indigenous referendum, Opposition saysABC Online

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Indigenous recognition poll 'doubtful'
The Australian
Labor agreed to hold the referendum as part of a deal with the Australian Greens following the 2010 election to seal the minor party's support for the Gillard minority government. Opposition indigenous affairs spokesman Nigel Scullion does not think it ...
Too late for Indigenous referendum, Opposition saysABC Message Stick
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Sky News Australia
Indigenous recognition poll 'doubtful'
Ninemsn
The federal opposition doubts a referendum on constitutional recognition for indigenous Australians will be held before the next election. Labor agreed to hold the referendum as part of a deal with the Australian Greens following the 2010 election to ...
Too late for Indigenous referendum, Opposition saysABC Message Stick

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Aboriginal language gets app of life
The Australian
A SMARTPHONE app has been designed specifically for the documentation of an endangered Australian indigenous language. The Ma! Iwaidja smartphone app has been developed as part of the Minjilang Endangered Languages Publication Project.
Phone app helps save indigenous languageHerald Sun

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Phone app helps save indigenous language
Ninemsn
A project team on Croker Island in remote northwestern Arnhem Land worked with Bruce Birch, a linguist from the Australian National University, to develop a smartphone dictionary application called Ma! Iwaidja (pronounced "ee-WHY-jah"). The application ...

Desert Mob lays out the legacy
The Australian
Desert Mob remains the most engaging and successful of the myriad indigenous art exhibitions staged each year across Australia, its catch-all quality lies at the heart of its appeal, at every turn its different works seem to murmur of the Aboriginal ...

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Cruel indigenous hunters to face penalties
The Australian
The state government passed amendments to the Animal Care and Protection Act on Wednesday, bringing Queensland into line with other Australian states. The legislative changes remove exemptions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, fulfilling a ...

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Too late for Indigenous referendum, Opposition says
ABC Message Stick
The Opposition says much more work needs to be done before Australia can hold a referendum to recognise Aboriginal people in the constitution. Related Story: Oakeshott: Time running out on Aboriginal vote · Map: Australia. The Opposition has given up ...

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Problem petrol sniffers resurface
New Zealand Herald
More than a decade after Australia was shocked by images of Aboriginal children stumbling through the desert with petrol canisters clamped to their faces, youth workers say the problem of sniffing has reappeared because some retailers are still ...

The Guardian
Sydney's top restaurants open kitchens to train indigenous chefs
The Guardian
Less than half of Australia's indigenous students finish high school, compared with 88% of the non-indigenous population. Unemployment is four times the national average and the average weekly wage of indigenous people is a third less than that of ...

Call for health warnings on grog
The Australian
The National Congress of Australia's First Peoples is also calling on the government to include foetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the definition of disability so people with FASD can get support and individuals and families affected by it are ...

Desert Mob lays out the legacy
The Australian
Desert Mob remains the most engaging and successful of the myriad indigenous art exhibitions staged each year across Australia, its catch-all quality lies at the heart of its appeal, at every turn its different works seem to murmur of the Aboriginal ...

FMG admits destroying sacred sites at Solomon Hub (mp3)

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The Secret Cave
UNICEF Australia (blog)
Through no fault of their own, they are three times more likely to suffer from mental health issues, 30% more likely to suffer from heart disease, and two to three times more likely to die before their fifth birthday than Australia's non-Indigenous ...